Allí, en los años siguientes, mientras Roma se hallaba ocupada con Iliria, Amílcar aumentó los dominios de Cartago. Según la tradición, fundó la ciud… - Isaac Asimov

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

By saving the knowledge of the race. The sum of human knowing is beyond any one man; any thousand men. With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know. They will be helpless and useless by themselves. The bits of lore, meaningless, will not be passed on. They will be lost through the generations. But, if we now prepare a giant summary of all knowledge, it will never be lost. Coming generations will build on it, and will not have to rediscover it for themselves. One millennium will do the work of thirty thousand.

And then — U. S. Robots has interstellar travel, and humanity has the opportunity for galactic empire.